I am a faculty member at the Computer Science department, U.C. Santa Barbara. Before UCSB, I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. My research spans the areas of networking, security and privacy, distributed systems, simulation and modeling. I received my B.S. degree from Yale University (BR'97). I am a recent recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award, MIT Tech Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), and ComputerWorld's Top 40 Technology Innovators.
New and Hopefully Useful
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- Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I am currently unable to host undergraduate visiting students seeking internships. I am also unable to respond to all e-mails seeking such internships.
- Chimera v1.20 structured overlay library for Linux and 32-bit WindowsXP
- Student resources
- Prospective graduate students
- Please read these Frequently Asked Questions before contacting me.
- Why you should come to UCSB, and Information for Admitted Students
- This is what a PhD is, and why you should want one.
- For current UCSB (especially my) students
- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
- UCSB Only: Job listings, UCSB Fellowships, Preparing for the MAE
- My reading list for advisees.
- Archive of useful papers on networking, systems, security, etc.
- Bits of accumulated wisdom (mostly for my reference):
- Cargo Cult Science, Cal Tech speech by Richard Feynman on scientific integrity.
- A talk on Technology and Courage, by Turing winner Ivan Sutherland.
- How to be a good graduate student
- Rugaber's notes on teaching, dissertations, and reading papers.
- Useful advice for PhD students
- Donald Knuth's All Questions Answered
- Songwu Lu's page On Research
Teaching
- [F08] CS276 - Graduate Networking
- An advanced course in networking covering topics such as distance vector and link state routing, BGP, multicast, TCP variations, wireless and peer-to-peer networks. Prerequisite: solid background in networking (176A/B or undergraduate equivalent).
- [F08] CS595F - Networking Seminar
- A graduate reading seminar covering recent papers from top conferences in networking conferences (SIGCOMM/MOBICOM/NSDI).
- Future/Other Courses (MouseOver for Prerequisites)
- [F08] [F07] [F06] CS276 - Graduate Networking
- [S08] [S07] [S06] CS170 - Operating Systems
- [W08] [W07] CS176B - Network Computing
- [S07] CS595N - Anonymous and Privacy-Preserving Systems
- [S06] [W05] CS290F - Large-scale Networked Systems
- [S06] CS176C - Advanced Topics in Networking
- [F08] [F07] [F06] CS276 - Graduate Networking
Research
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- My research interests lie in the boundaries between networking, security and privacy, operating systems, and algorithms. I also have healthy interests in wireless and mobile computing, programming languages and databases.
- At UCSB, I lead the CURRENT lab for research on Secure and Reliable Networking. Some of our ongoing projects include:
- Privacy and Data Mining in Social Networks
- Anonymous communication
- Vehicular Networks
- Reputations for peer-to-peer systems
- The Mutant cluster, online reservation system, usage and uptime statistics.
- My thesis work on the Tapestry structured P2P overlay.
Dates: Travel and CFPs
- Fall Quarter Classes: 9/25-12/5-12/13
- Winter 09 Quarter Classes: 1/5-3/13-3/21
- Spring 09 Quarter Classes: 3/30-6/5-6/12
- Dates:
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- Travel: 10/3-10/8, SRDS
- CFP October 3-10: NSDI 2009
- Travel: 10/19-10/21, NPSec/ICNP
- CFP November 7: EuroSys 2009
- Travel: 11/16-11/19, WICON
- CFP November 26-December 3, 2008: Mobisys 2009
- CFP January 13, 2009: HotOS 2009
- CFP January 23-30, 2009: SIGCOMM 2009
Professional Activities
- Program Committees
- Other Professional Service
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- Steering Committee: IPTPS
- Program Co-Chair: IPTPS 2006
- Web Systems Chair: ICNP 2006
Contact Info
Prof. Ben Y. Zhao 
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106-5110
Phone: +1 (805) 893-3926
Fax: +1 (805) 893-8553
